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by ckastner 5y ago
Just to be clear, I'd love for this to happen. I absolutely despise the outrage machine that Twitter has come to be. I'm saying it's interesting for Elon, as a major shareholder, to argue in favor of this.
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by ckastner 5y ago
> "Twitter algorithm should be open source" I can see the idealism behind this question, but imagine just how hard this could backfire in practice. People discovering to what extent algorithmic ranking manipulates them, and f
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by ckastner 5y ago
TWTR is up 24% pre-market. I don't think there's much that Musk can do to increase Twitter's revenue, but at least the market seems to believe that he can hype this one beyond reasonable valuations, too.
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by ckastner 5y ago
This implies that he sees value in Twitter. The interesting question is whether said value is based on one of his insights/visions that most others seem to lack, or whether he is outright deluding himself because of his Twitter addicti
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by ckastner 5y ago
The author didn't state that. That's a direct quote from the Debian page, from the "Audit Scope" section. That statement is entirely reasonable, yet the author frames this as the the point where "things begin to spi
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by ckastner 5y ago
This article is full of inaccuracies and errors. > Due to the sheer size of the current Debian release it is infeasible for a small team to be able to audit all the packages, so there is a system of prioritizing packages which are more
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SMB 3 in 3 minutes – World Record Speedrun Explained [video] (2020)(youtube.com)
3 points by ckastner 5y ago|1 comments
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by ckastner 5y ago
It would change the long-term outcome. If you wanted voting secrecy but were unhappy with the proposed implementations of option 1 and 2, you'd vote 4 > 3, leaving room for future alternative proposals. If you were against any for
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by ckastner 5y ago
The legitimacy was questioned by a single person, so far all replies indicate that said person was simply mistaken on multiple counts, and in the meantime, said person no longer sees a problem. Reasons against secret voting were expressed i
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Because it's their corporation and they can do whatever they want with it No, they can't do whatever they want with it. Consumer protection laws are an obvious example for how corporate interests can be limited. > becau
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by ckastner 5y ago
I didn't say 30% fees are immoral, I said 30% fee walled gardens are immoral. Especially when you make it all but impossible for third parties to operate outside of that walled garden.
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by ckastner 5y ago
> It's so easy to destroy a sector when you have nothing to lose. The EU is choosing to favor acting on behalf of their people, rather than some sector. If that sector can't make money in ways that are not immoral with regard
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by ckastner 5y ago
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
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by ckastner 5y ago
> I’ve never found the point in IF when I stop being hungry. I start getting hungry typically after 5 hours of being awake and I stay that way until I eat. Whether that’s 2 minutes or 24 hours, I’ve never reached that mythic place where
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by ckastner 5y ago
> I believe the poster didn't mean this as "denigrating", and were rather referring to the caloric contents, where "hot water" implies minimal amount of calories. Yes, this is what I meant.
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by ckastner 5y ago
Fair enough. Although my intention wasn't to imply that it was easy in general, just easier than the suggestion I was replying to. In any case, the first step in losing weight is actually wanting to do something about it, as the submit
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by ckastner 5y ago
I never saw the goal as eating healthy all the time. Just more of it can already improve things dramatically. For example, I absolutely love good pizza (with the emphasis on good ), and just get it whenever I crave it because I know that
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by ckastner 5y ago
Absolutely. One advantage that I have of living in the center of a big city is that there are literally hundreds of restaurants in walking distance from my home. Lockdowns are over but my employer is still mostly in WFH mode. I've made
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by ckastner 5y ago
> Just eat less man. It's pretty straight forward. Just eat one meal a day (lunch) and you'll see the weight fly off. You're suggesting a diet that requires a discipline that, empirically, is obviously beyond the reach o
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Potential cause of Covid-19-induced loss of smell identified(cell.com)
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by ckastner 5y ago
Yes, your slice of the pie would improve more than the average slice, but the size of the overall pie would be much smaller.
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by ckastner 5y ago
If they had tons of LHR cards and the code to unlock them, the last thing they would do is share the unlock code with others (= the competition).
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by ckastner 5y ago
> increasing the hash rate of your setup without impacting energy usage means more efficient mining No, it just means you get more MH/s. It's also (probably) not cheaper to run, unless the cards actually draw less power as we
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by ckastner 5y ago
> I don't understand how this demand helps the gaming community. Agreed. But I don't understand how this helps the mining community, either. Removing the LHR restriction would lead to a vast increase of the network hash rate,
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by ckastner 5y ago
> The strength of these types of global payments systems is that they are global and neutral. If they stop being neutral soon enough they will stop being global. Being global is far more important than being neutral, and countries will
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by ckastner 5y ago
> "The operational semantics of the most basic primitives of your operating system are designed to simplify the implementation of shells." Yes, but why is this characterized as something negative? Isn't that the entire p
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by ckastner 5y ago
It's not a question of "possible". It's a question of "probable". Me being old enough to buy lottery tickets means that me winning the lottery three times in a row is possible . The probability of that is ve
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by ckastner 5y ago
> We are on the knife's edge of disaster here. Not even remotely true. Demonstrably. The worst thing on the table right now are economic sanctions. Putin knew these were going to happen, and evidently thought the trouble was worth
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by ckastner 5y ago
> substantial risk of full scale thermonuclear exchange. This hasn't been true since the Cuban Missile Crisis. A full scale nuclear exchange ends with the annihilation of both sides. [1] To quote WarGames, "The only way to wi
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by ckastner 5y ago
It remember that is was far more than that. Without having invested too much time into this, Microsoft's market cap back then was around $270bn, and the stock rose by around 7% on 2013-08-23, the day is retirement plans were announced.

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